The Bazan oil refinery in Haifa said Friday it discovered additional damage to its site overnight following an Iranian missile attack a day earlier, which will take “a few days” to restore.

The refinery said in a regulatory filing to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that damage was caused to “exterior infrastructure belonging to a third party, which is essential to the [refinery’s] activities, located outside the refinery site.”

It said most production is active and the rest is on its way to being restarted.

Energy Minister Eli Cohen said Thursday that “no significant damage to infrastructure sites” had been caused in the attack after fragments from a missile interception hit the facility.

According to the filing, the company initially believed the impact had been limited to power lines and an open area next to a management building. There were no injuries in the attack.

Responding to the filing, Avihu Han, Haifa’s Deputy Mayor and Chairman of the Haifa Bay Cities Association for Environmental Protection, urged the government to shutter the refineries as soon as possible, in line with its own decision to transition to importing and safely storing petroleum distillates in different locations.

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